21.12.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 10-20 "Missing the Marks? Dispersion in Corporate Bond Valuations Across Mutual Funds" by Gjergji Cici, Scott Gibson and John J. Merrick, Jr. has been accepted for publication in the “Journal of Financial Economics”.

16.12.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 08-08 "Overconfidence among Professional Investors: Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers" by Alexander Pütz and Stefan Ruenzi has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Business Finance and Accounting".

16.12.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 04-03 "Risk and Return in Convertible Arbitrage: Evidence from the Convertible Bond Market" by Vikas Agarwal, William H. Fung, Yee Cheng Loon and Narayan Y. Naik has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Empirical Finance".

14.12.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 07-09 "Do hedge funds manage their reported returns?" by Vikas Agarwal, Naveen D. Daniel and Narayan Y. Naik has been accepted for publication in The Review of Financial Studies.

14.12.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 10-18 "The Performance of Corporate-Bond Mutual Funds: Evidence Based on Security-Level Holdings" by Gjergji Cici and Scott Gibson has been accepted for publication in the "Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis".

02.12.2010
New Member of the CFR research team
We are proud to welcome Gjergji Cici at the CFR. Gjergji Cici is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Mason School of Business of College of William and Mary. He will strengthen the area of research of Asset Management at the CFR.

26.10.2010
Best Paper Award for CFR Research Team Member
The member of our Research Team, Monika Trapp, has received the "Best Paper Award in Risk Management" of the Financial Management Association (FMA). The paper "Trading the Bond-CDS Basis – The Role of Credit Risk and Liquidity" (CFR Working Paper No. 09-16) has been awarded. The Award has been presented on October 10th 2010 at the annual meeting in New York.

19.10.2010
New Member of the CFR research team
We are proud to welcome Florian Sonnenburg at the CFR. Florian Sonnenburg is a graduate Economist and he will strengthen the area of research of Asset Management at the CFR.

13.08.2010
Award for CFR Research Team Members
The members of our Research Team, Sabine Artmann, Philipp Finter and Alexander Kempf, have placed second in the 2010 Acatis Value Award. They have received the award for their CFR Working Paper No. 10-01 "Determinants of Expected Stock Returns: Large Sample Evidence from the German Market".

10.08.2010
Laura Andreu (University of Zaragoza) at the CFR
We are proud to welcome Laura Andreu from University of Zaragoza (Spain) at the CFR. During a Research Visit, lasting several months, Laura Andreu will work on projects in the field of asset management.

10.08.2010
Generali Deutschland Holding new CFR Sponsor
Generali Deutschland Holding joins the circle of CFR Supporting members. We welcome this decision.

06.05.2010
New Member of the CFR Research Team
We are proud to welcome Stephan Jank (University of Tübingen) at the CFR. His research focuses on topics in mutual funds and asset pricing.

22.04.2010
New Board Member
We are proud to welcome Dr. Wolfgang Leoni (Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie.) as a new board member of the Fördergesellschaft Finanzmarktforschung e.V.

13.04.2010
New Member on the Advisory Body
We are proud to welcome Michael Stölting (NRW.BANK) as a new member of the Advisory Body of the CFR.

07.04.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 05-10 "Is a Team Different From the Sum of Its Parts? Evidence from Mutual Fund Managers" by Alexander Kempf, Michaela Bär and Stefan Ruenzi has been accepted for publication in the Review of Finance.

09.03.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 08-11 "Risk Management With Default-risky Forwards" by Olaf Korn has been accepted for publication in the journal Schmalenbach Business Review.

26.02.2010
CFR Working Paper Accepted for Publication
The CFR Working Paper No. 09-04 "Rapid Trading bei deutschen Aktienfonds: Evidenz aus einer großen deutschen Fondsgesellschaft" by Jieyan Fang and Stefan Ruenzi has been accepted for publication in the Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft.

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Responsible for content in the sense of § 18 para. 2 MStV:
Dr. Alexander Pütz
Centre for Financial Research (CFR)
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln
puetz@cfr-cologne.de